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Eco-friendly drug dealers are now packaging Class A drugs in re-usuable containers for customers concerned about the environment.

Dealers have traditionally used small plastic ziploc baggies, lottery tickets, greaseproof paper or cling film to wrap up their drugs but some are now giving customers plastic pods they can return and refill.

A cocaine user in Birmingham told Metro.co.uk he thought his dealer was joking when he was given drugs inside the cone-shaped vial.

The plastic vial which cocaine was sold in Birmingham (Picture: Metro.co.uk)

He said: ‘I was given a gram of cocaine in this plastic pod thing and my dealer said they were not serving up in plastic ziploc bags or wraps any more.

‘He said that I could bring it back if I wanted to and he would refill it and that it would be better for the environment.

‘I thought he was joking but he was serious, he reckoned they used so many plastic baggies and paper and a reusable container would be easier than wrapping up individual wraps.

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‘I told him I was not bothered about the environment and surely cocaine itself can’t be that be eco-friendly but he reckoned he had a load of hipster customers and they loved it.’

But another cocaine user backed the idea, saying: ‘The amount of plastic bags and paper that must have been wasted with wraps of drugs before must have been so bad for the environment so these reusable plastic things can only be good.’

Unfortunately it’s unlikely to balance out the damage done to the environment in the production of cocaine.

In 2011, a study by the State University of New York found that growing and producing the drug had contributed to major deforestation in Colombia.

Cocaine production causes deforestation in South America (Picture: E+)

Ecologist Liliana M. Dávalos said: ‘In southern Colombia we found geographically that there is just more probability of losing the forest close to coca cultivation.

‘And the more coca around you, the more forest you’re likely to lose, the sheer amount of coca in the vicinity has an effect.’